Timetabling clash

From European Voice's Entre-Nous column

6/18/08, 5:00 PM CET

Updated 4/23/14, 8:46 PM CET

The ‘Bus for Justice’, sadly eclipsed.

How much public sympathy and attention can Commission officials command? The question is being put to the test by a group of officials who are suing the Commission over alleged inequities in recruitment procedures. They have hired a bus to take supporters and the media to Luxembourg to attend a European Court of Justice hearing. The ‘Bus for Justice’ leaves in time for the hearing – on 19 June. An unfortunate coincidence, since inevitably more attention will be paid to the meeting in Brussels of EU leaders grappling with the impact of high food and oil prices and the Irish ‘No’ vote on the Lisbon treaty. A case of missing the bus twice, perhaps.